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4 THE BATTALION AGGIES TO MEET OWLS AND STEERS ON TRACK SAT. BALL TEAM INVADES NORTH TEXAS THIS WEEK-END Aggies Play Leading Bears Fri., Frogs and S M U on Sat. and Mon. SPORTS BITS BY FRANK W. THOMAS JR. If Coach Hig’s Aggie nine can win all three ball games to be played this week end, they will go into the lead in the conference flag chase. Play ing the league leading Bears Friday, they will go up against the hardest test. If the Aggies beat Baylor, and the Steers win over the Frogs, both will be tied for the lead, but with the Higmen playing two more games this week end, they can break into the lead. This week end will be an important one in athletics at A & M in both baseball and track. If the track team wins the meet with Rice and Texas here Saturday, it is highly probable that they will grab the conference hon ors. If the ball team can bring home three victories from their road trip— they will also be on the long road to first conference title. Squawk Veltman, San Antonio, is certainly making his bid for a sec ond all-conference baseball position in the outfield. Squawk turned in an excellent game Friday, getting three hits and stealing four sacks. The way he stole home was a sight to be hold. He and Captain Beau Bell make as sweet a pair of outfielders as can be found in the conference. Both are the heaviest and hardest hitters on the club and their fielding is flawless. Too much credit cannot be given the Intramural department for the ef ficient way in which the annual track meet was run off Sunday afternoon. It was run off faster than ever be fore, and was finished about 4:30. Handling the number of men enter ed and getting the races run off the way they did is unparalleled. The Sports Staff of the Battalion, through this column, wish to extend their sincerest and most heartfelt con gratulations to Freddie and Mrs. Jane Cavitt Buford upon their recent mar riage and to wish them all the suc cess and happiness that life can bring forth. At a recent meeting of the Heads of the Association of Texas Colleges in Austin, they voted to place a ban on practices of coaches soliciting stu dents and of colleges offering work to athletes as an inducement to en roll in the institutions. AGGIES, BAYLOR, AND TEX AS MAY TIE FOR TITLE Visions of the first conference base ball pennant in many a year will be in front of Captain Beau Bell and his Maroon and White nine when they meet the league leading Baylor Bears at Waco Friday afternoon. A win over Baylor will put the Aggies in excel lent position to cop the title from the Longhorns this year. Following the Bear game the Higmen will go to Ft. Worth for a game with the Texas Christian Horned Frog nine on Sat urday, and will meet the Southern Methodist Mustangs on Monday at Dallas. These will be the last out of town games for the Aggie nine this season. The game in Waco will be a tough one, as a defeat will practically throw either team out of the running for the conference championship. At the first meeting between the two schools, the Aggies came off the diamond 4 to 3 winner of a ten inning game. Baylor then defeated Texas, and the Steers in turn defeated the Aggies, each team having lost only one game thus far. A victory over the Bears will put Texas and A & M in the lead, and the Aggies will have to vanquish Tex as in order to obtain the flag. If Bay lor defeats the Aggies Friday; Texas defeats the Bears in their next meet ing and the Aggies in turn beat the Steers here on the 16th, the confer ence will most likely end up in a three way tie. Marshall Shaw will probably pitch the game against Baylor for the Ag gies, with Axil Hawes occupying the mound against the Frogs. Bob Garvey will probably get the call behind the bat for the Bear and Pony game, with Moon Golasinski working Saturday. The rest of the probable line up: Car penter, first base; Davis, second base; Pampell, third base; Henderson, short stop; Bell, left field; Veltmgn, center- field and Mitchell, right field. Returning from this trip, the Ag gies will meet the Rice Owls at Kyle field on Thursday, May 7. New Basketball Rules Have But Few Changes Coach Francis Schmidt, Texas Christian University mentor who has returned from New York where he has been the official representative of the Southwest Conference in the annual meeting of the National Bas ketball Rules Committee, has announc ed that there will be no drastic changes in the rules for he 1932 bas ketball campaign. “It is against the policy of the com • mittee to make rigid changes in the rules,” Schmidt said. ‘ We made some changes in order to speed up the game and eliminate roughness, some to make it a better and more inter esting game from the spectator’s view point, and some to make it easier on the officials.” Briefly the changes are: Each icam be allowed three one-minute timeouts instead of the two-minute rest periods. If a player consumes more than 10 seconds at the free throw line or en ters the free throw lane, the jump ball is to be at center instead of che 15-foot line. On a free throw following a technical or double foul, players shall not line up on the free throw lanes. On a missed free throw that hits neither hoop nor backboard, the ball is given to an opponent out of bounds on the side. The marks for home and visitors on the free throw lane, that were suggested last year, becomes a rule this year. The timer may blow his whistle for substitution whenever the ball is dead—thus permitting a substitution when the ball is on the 15-foot line. (Continued on page 5) Aggies Win From Owls And Ponies Playing heads up baseball behind the masterful twirling of Marshall Shaw, brilliant Aggie sophomore moundsmen, Coach Higginbotham’s crew successfully routed the Rice Owls on their own lot Monday after noon to the tune of 9 to 2. This vic tory marked the fourth conference win for the Aggies this season in five (Continued on page 5) Meet to Decide Probable 1931 Conference Track Champions Engineers Take Intramural Meet Company C Engineers, with 26 points, took first place in the intra mural track and field meet, Sunday afternoon, at Kyle field. Company H Infantry and Troop B Cavalry, with 17 and 16 points each were second and third place winners. Battery B Artillery was fourth with 13 points. T. W. Klein, Texarkana, Arkansas, first place winner in both the 100 and 220 yard dashes, and fourth in the broad jump, with 12 points was high point man for the afternoon. He was followed closely by J. E. Robertson, Austin, with ten points to his credit, as a result of his winning the initial place in the high and broad jumps. Both Klein and Robertson are mem bers of Company C Engineers, meet winner. Due to a slow track because of rainy weather the time in all events was slow and no former records were brok en. First place winners are as follows. 100 yard dash, T. W. Klein, Co. C Engineers. 220 yard dash, T. W. Klein, Co. C Engineres. 400 yard run, Steele, Co. B Signal Corps. 880 yard run, J. L. Borgendahl, Bat tery E Artillery. Mile run, C. L. Herfurth. Battery C Artillery. 180 low hurdles, J. P. Christian, Troop C Cavalry. 120 high hurdles, M. U. Barton, Band. High jump, J. E. Robertson, Co. C Engineers. Broad jump, J. E. Robertson, Co. C. Engineers. Shot put, A. G. Nixon, Battery B Artillery. Javelin, J. C. Barron, Co. C. In fantry. Discus, Ridder, Co. B Infantry. Aggies Given Edge In Meet With Owls As Close Second Predictions as to who will be the probable 1931 Southwest Conference track champions will be easier to fore cast after the meeting between the Rice Owls, University of Texas. Steers and Captain Rufus Emmon’s Aggie cinder chasers on Kyle Field next Sat urday afternoon. The Rice Owls, by virtue of wins over the Aggies and the Longhorns are the present fav orites to carry the title for this year. This meet will practicaly be a “lit tle conference meet’ as it is almost certain that the winner of the meet Saturday will probably be the next conference champion. There will be many interesting races during this meet, the outstanding of which will probably be the 440 yard relay and the mile relay. The best mark hung up by a conference relay team this season belongs to the Rice crew with a 3:20 made earlier in the season. Texas took first at the Kansas Relays with a 3:20.5. . The high and low hurdle races be tween Kroschel of Rice and Slocumb and Harlan of the Aggies should be another teaiure or the meet. At the last meeting between the two schools, Kroschel took first in the high hur dles with a 15.2 while Harlan took first in the low hurdles with a 24.1. With Don Slocumb back in competition the race promises to be closer yet. The race between Emmons and PIol- (Continued on Page 5) Nators Defeat Texas In First Conference Meet Thirteen Tumblers To Receive Sweaters Mr. J. A. Butler made an investi- {Continued on nage 5) Letters and sweaters will be award ed members of Coach Bill Staples 1931 Aggie tumbling team when the season closes Thursday afternoon. The last exhibition this year will be g-iven Thursday for the benefit of those at tending the school of Agriculture pic nic. A performance was given by the team Tuesday, in the Assembly Hall, for the benefit of the firemen here for the convention. Those receiving letters and sweat ers for this season are: Bill Staples, captain and coach, San Antonio; A. (Continued cn page 5) BASEBALL CONFERENCE STANDING April 25—S M U 58, Denton Teachers College 64. Team— G W L Pet. TENNIS RESULTS Baylor ... 7 6 1 .857 April 24—Rice 5, S M U 1. Texas ... 5 4 1 .800 April 24—Texas 6, T C U 0. A & M ... 5 4 1 .800 April 25—Texas 6, U. of Oklahoma 0. Rice ... 8 3 5 .375 April 25—Baylor 2, A & M 4. S M U ... 6 1 5 .167 April 25—(Rice 4, T C U. T C U ... 7 1 6 .143 WHERE THEY PLAY CONFERENCE SCORES Baseball: April 24—A & M 13, S M U 1. May 1—Baylor vs A & M at Waco. April 24—.Texas 7, T C U 3. May 1—Texas vs T C U at Ft. Worth. April 25—Baylor 5, T C U 0. May 2—Texas vs S M U at Dallas. April 25—Rice 5, S M U 0. May 2—A & M vs- T C U at Ft. Worth. April 27—A & M 9, Rice 2. May 4—A & M vs S M U at Dallas. TRACK RESULTS May 7—A & M vs Rice at College. April 25—T C U 62, Baylor 60. May 7—Baylor vs Texas at Austin. Winning the 300 foot medley relay race in record time, Dan Humason’s Texas Aggie swimmers took a close score to win the first swimming meet ever held under a Southwest Confer ence rules from Texas University 40 to 35, Saturday night, in the Gregory Gymnasium at the University. In taking the race the Aggies not only won the meet, but also set a new tank record of 58 seconds flat for that event. Probably the individual feature of the meet, other than the record set in the medley race, was the ease with which Humason, Aggie captain and coach, won the 100 yard back stroke and the 220 yard free style races. In both cases Humason coasted to an easy victory, reaching the goal 80 feet ahead of his nearest rival in the first and a full 100 feet forward of his op ponents in the latter. First places in the 100 yard free style and the 100 yard breast stroke went to Robert L. Suggs, San Antonio, also of A & M. The winning medley team was com posed of Humason, Suggs, and How- der. Saturday, May 2, the Aggies will meet the University team in a return (Continued on page 5)